LOS SUEOS DE UN HIGADO

One of the many Rodriguez-Lopez albums released in 2009, this one is taken from live recordings from the 2009 European Tour, and provides a bit of a contrast from the other recordings released that year.

The opening jazzy-rocky-bluesy-latiny jam Boiling Death Requests A Body To Rest Its Head On (not sure what that means but...) extends over 9 minutes and has plenty of the Rodriguez- Lopez manic guitar sounds. It's very easy to make these boring but the musicianship always interests.

The main problem with the rest of the tracks is the female vocals (all in Spanish) which don't really do much for me personally, it's mad I know, but I keep think how much better it would sound with Cedric on vocals, maybe it's a familiarity thing.

How to Bill the Bilderberg Group is an alternate longer version of the track that appears on the Old Money album, and probably the strongest of the "vocal" tracks.

The next two tracks are on Omar's latest release (Solar Gambling) and I'm sure they must sound better on there. The vocals really do grate on "Locomocion Capillar". "Las Flores Con Limon", is a much slower track and improves greatly on the previous track.

Victimas del Cielo rounds off the album with 8 minutes of "soaring" female vocals (I guess) and more stellar guitar work from Omar.

Rodriguez-Lopez is not too everyones taste I guess, as it is certainly isn't easy on the ear at first, but it is NOT just a relentless noise, it really does need time to listen and appreciate different layers of each track.

Why not head over to the Rodriguez-Lopez Productions website where you can stream just about every track on there and listen before committing yourself.